Faucet.



UTED STATES PAENT OFFCE.

EUGENE lVI. DEILLER AND MARTIN DEILLER, OF NEWARK, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNORST0 DEILLER FAUCET COMPANY, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., A CORPORATION OF NEWYORK.

FA'UCET.

Specicaton of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 19, 1909.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, EUGENE M. DEILLER and MARTIN DEILLER, of the cityof Newark, county of Essex, and State of New Jersey, have invented a newand useful Improvement in Faucets, of which the following is a full,clear, and exact description.

Our invention relates to improvements in faucets, and especially tofaucets such as are used for drawing beer, ale, and malt liquid.

The object of our invention is to produce a faucet of simpleconstruction having its parts arranged so that they can be easilyassembled or taken apart, and more particularly to produce a faucet inwhich the bore of the body portion of the faucet discharges into alarger chamber, from which the discharge is controlled by a valve. Inthis way the liquor is given an opportunity to expand before issuingfrom the vent o-f the faucet, and thus it can be discharged practicallywithout foam if desired, or, as will hereafter appear, the withdrawalvent can be regulated so that any desired degree of foaminess can' begiven to the liquid. Y

Our invention is further intended to produce a reliable valve which willnot leak, which can be easily operated, and which is well adapted forthe purpose of drawing liquid generally.

Still another object is to construct and arrange the handle device sothat the valve can be easily regulated and so that a drag can be placedon the valve mechanism to prevent the latter from closing too easily.

With these ends in view and with the general object of producing asimple, inexpensive and efficient faucet, our invention consists ofcertain features of construction and ,combinations of parts which willbe hereinafter described and claimed.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings forming a part ofthis specification, in which similar reference characters indicatecorresponding parts in all the views.

Figure 1 is a side elevation of the faucet embodying our invention. Fig.2 is a detail section showing the valve closed. Fig. 3 is a brokensection similar to Fig. 2, but with the valve open, and Fig. 4 is adetail view of the plug which forms an important part of the invention.

The faucet has a barrel 10 with a longitudinal bore 11 therethrough, andwith the usual means, to wit:-the threaded part 12 to couple to athreaded stem of a beer barrel or equivalent structure. The bore 11discharges through a plug, which will be presently described, into thevertical part 13 of the faucet, and this part is preferably integralwith the part 10, both forming one casting of a general elbow shape. Thepart 13 is hollow and has an enlarged chamber therein, that is to saythe chamber is much greater in cross sectional area than the bore 11, sothat the liquid discharged into the chamber can have an opportunity toexpand before being withdrawn from the faucet through the reduceddelivery part or nozzle 14. The flow of liquor through the dischargenozzle 14C is regulated by a valve 17, and in order that this may make atight closure, it rests on a gasket 16 which lits upon an annularshoulder forming the bottom of the chamber in the part 13. The gasket 15has a tendency sometimes to stick to the valve 17, so as to prevent thelatter from operating efIiciently, and to avoid this difficulty we use aholding means such as the spring ring 16, which ts snugly in the chamberof the part 13 and rests against the gasket 15, thereby preventing thedisplacement of the latter. The part or member 18 is open its full sizeat the top, and this top part isclosed by a plug 18 which has a bore 19therethrough, this bore being preferably larger than the b ore 11, andit opens from the side of the plug as shown at 2O so as to register withthe bore 11. The discharge of the bore 19 is vertically downwardpractically in alinement with the bore of the nozzle 14. The plug 18 ispreferably secured in place by a screw cap, as presently described, andwe get a very nice adjustment in this way, and this is particularly soas we provide a longitudinal groove 2l in one side of the plug whichreceives a boss 22 on the wall of the member 13, and thus the plug isprevented from turning, and the bosses 19 and 11 are sure to register.

The plug 18 vhas preferably a reduced lower end 18s, which leaves roomin the chamber of the part 13 for the liquid to expand around this partof the plug, and the reduced part 18a is preferably cut away on one sideas shown at 181, so that when the valve 18 is raised, instead of closingthe bore 19 it will, if raised against the part 18a still leave a ventthrough the part 18" through which the liquidcan flow. It will be seenAing through the part 18h, which serves as a port, will have ampleopportunity to expand within the member 13, and will consequently flowout through the nozzle 14 quite clear of foam, while by permitting agreater iow from the bore 19, the liquid will be more foamy as it isdischarged.

The plug 18 has a shoulder 23 at the top which fits on the top edge ofthe part 13 and a lead washer or equivalent washer 24 is placed at thejunction of the two parts so as to insure a perfectly tight fit. Theplug 18 is locked in place by the screw cap 25 which fits the upper partof the member 13. To actuate the valve 17 any suitable means can beused, but I prefer to use the structure shown and described, and toprovide for this the lower end of the member 13 has a boss orenlargement 26, in which is ournaled the'shaft 27, and this has itscenter section or portion preferably flattened as shown at 27a so thatthe valve stem or linger 28 can be secured thereto and held so as not toturn. The stem or finger 28 is curved so that its inner end will strikethe valve 17, and it swings in the split part 14a of the n-ozzle 14, andhas its middle portion thinned on the upper edge as shown at 29 so asnot to offer any great obstruction to the flow of liquid.

The valve stem is actuated by the lever or i Vhandle 30, which issecured to the shaft 27,

and which has a transverse slot 31 which receives the stop 32, thisbeing fast on the member 13. Thus the movement of the handle 30 islimited, and one wall of the slot 31 vis made preferably slightlyeccentric so as to vfit rather snugly against the stop 32 and so theslot and stop act to limit the movement of the lever and consequentlyof'the valve, and at the same time the friction of the stop against theslot wall serves as a drag to prevent ihe handle from moving too easily.

From the foregoing description it will be seen that the special thing isto have the bore 11 discharge through a removable plug into a chamberwhich has a reduced discharge nozzle controlled by a valve; that it isalso very desirable to have the plug provided with a reduced lower end,but that the faucet `can be made of any appropriate design, and thatmany of the details of construction can be varied without affecting theprinciple of the invention.

Having thus fully described our invention, we claim as new and desire tosecure by Letters Patent 1. A faucethaving a body of general elbow shapewith a longitudinal bore through the horizontal member and a rela tivelylarge chamber in the vertical member, a reduced valve controlleddischarge nozzle leading from the said chamber, and a plug closing theupper part of said chamber, the said plug having a bore registering withthe first mentioned bore and discharging into the aforesaid chamber, thewall of the said plug being cut away at its lower end.

2. A faucet of a general elbow shape, having a bore through thehorizontal member and a chamber having a reduced shoulder at its lowerend and opening upward through the vertical member, a plug entering thesaid chamber and having a reduced lower end with a bore therethroughopening through the side of the plug and registering with the bore ofthe horizontal member, and a centering device to hold the bore of theplug in registry with the bore of the horizontal member, the wall of thesaid plug being cut away at its lower end.

3. In a faucet having a bored horizontal member and a chambered verticalmember with a reduced discharge, the combination with the aforesaidparts, of a plug closing the top of the chamber and having a boreregistering with the bore ofthe horizontal member and discharging intothe chamber, a ball valve seated in the reduced discharge end of thechamber, a rock-shaft journaled on the faucet, and a finger swinging onthe rock. shaft and engaging the ball within its free end, theintermediate portion of the upper edge of the finger being thinner thanthe adjacent portions thereof.

1-. The combination with a faucet having a discharge nozzle and a valveseated at the inlet of the nozzle,of a shaft journaled on the faucet, afinger carried by the shaft and swinging in the nozzle so as to engagethe valve, a lever on the shaft, said lever having a transverse slotltherein, and a stop lug on the faucet entering the slot and frictionallyengaging the wall thereof, thereby serving as a brake or drag torestrict the movement of the ball valve.

5. A faucet of general elbow shape having a bore through the horizontalmember and a chamber in the vertical member, a discharge nozzle in thebottom of the chamber, a valve seated in the mouth of the said nozzle, aplug closing the top of the chamber and having a bore registering withthe bore of the horizontal member and discharging above the valve, onewall of the said plug being cut away, and means for raising the valveagainst the lower end of the plug to partially close the bore thereof.

6. A faucet of general elbow shape having a bore in the horizontalmember and a chamber in the Vertical member With a discharge nozzleinthe bottom thereof, a ball valve seated in the mouth of the saidnozzle, means for raising the Valve, a plug closing the top of thechamber, said plug having a reduced lower end and a bore leading throughsaid reduced part and registering through the side of the plug With thebore of the hori- 10 zontal member, and a cap to secure the plug in thechamber.

EUGENE M. DEILLER. MARTIN DEILLER.

Witnesses WARREN B. HUTGHINSON, THERON DAVIS.

